US20030149745A1 - Method and apparatus for accessing information from a network data source - Google Patents

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US20030149745A1
US20030149745A1 US10/311,502 US31150202A US2003149745A1 US 20030149745 A1 US20030149745 A1 US 20030149745A1 US 31150202 A US31150202 A US 31150202A US 2003149745 A1 US2003149745 A1 US 2003149745A1
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  • the object of the present invention is a method for accessing information from a network data source, the network data source being managed by a server means.
  • an information request is sent through the network to the severs means, then information is retrieved from the data source with the server means, and the information retrieved from the data source is forwarded to a receiving telecommunication means.
  • Information used at the receiving telecommunication means is transformed.
  • the object of the invention is a system for performing the steps of the method, and a computer program product comprising commands to execute the steps of the method and further comprising commands to operate the system and/or parts of the system.
  • a major problem of today's information technology is to quickly select information relevant to a particular user from the huge bulk of information that can be accessed via the Internet, thereby avoiding unnecessary information requests.
  • Existing solutions all solve only fractions of the problem. For instance, there are certain websites, particularly the so-called “portals” that in principle offer customized information to users visiting the website regularly. In reality, however, customization amounts merely to providing the possibility for the user to choose the entry address of his own page and to select menu items and other entry points that he would like to access more easily, with fewer mouse clicks.
  • information may be filtered only according to such criteria which was provided beforehand by the information provider, e. g. by classifying the provided content into certain categories. It is not possible for the user to perform the filtering according to his own filtering criteria, and to perform this filtering only on certain selected information sources.
  • dynamically determined unique transformation data are associated to the information request, the transformation data being determined based on a predetermined and/or previously fixed parameter system,
  • information is requested through a so-called requesting communications channel.
  • the user launches the information request towards the system through this channel, but in a number of cases the channel is used to transmit to the system input data entered by the user (e.g. selected words, numeric values, characters) or data identifying the user (e.g. location information, phone numbers).
  • data entered by the user e.g. selected words, numeric values, characters
  • data identifying the user e.g. location information, phone numbers
  • the unique transformation data are determined with a configuring telecommunication means.
  • a configuring communications channel can be assigned to the configuring telecommunication means.
  • a separate data source communications channel can be included to connect the data source and the server means.
  • the data source communications channel is a channel through which the information arrives when requested by the user. This channel may also transmit previously stored data and input data (if any) to the ultimate source of information, the data source, in order to perform a request or, optionally, to perform a two-way data exchange transaction.
  • the source document is transmitted to the server means through the source communications channel.
  • the main application area of inventive method is the accessing of information (documents) that can be requested from the Internet, from a standalone computer, from a server computer, from a computer network, or can be accessed using other communications or telecommunications channels.
  • information (document) can be a WAP page (Wireless Application Protocol),, a WEB page, an XML document (eXtensible Markup Language), where documents are retrieved either by FTP (File Transfer Protocol), telnet, NFS (Network File System), or from a database or local file.
  • the method can also be applied for retrieving information that can be accessed via SMS messages (Short Message Service), telephone calls or by means of a human or machine (synthesised human) voice-driven information service.
  • the retrieved information can be an ActiveX, Java, or JavaScript application or applet, or alternatively the method can be embedded in such applications or applets.
  • the method can be applied in electronic commerce, when access of information is performed typically during a transaction for concluding an agreement, where the agreement is based on data exchange.
  • the inventive method can be performed in such a way that at least a part of the transformation data is included in the information request. It is useful, however, to store at least a part of the transformation data in a separate database. In that case the information request contains data for connecting to the database.
  • data determining the filtering and/or editing and/or supplementing and/or displaying of the information are usually regarded as transformation data.
  • the change of the information with respect to its previous state is also frequently regarded as transformation data.
  • data for determining the unification of the information with other pieces of information as transformation data, or, in other cases, data for the identification of the requesting person can also be considered as transformation data.
  • authentication data can be forwarded to the server means and/or to the data source in connection with the information request, especially in case the data source can only be accessed after a user authentication procedure involving a password or a similar identifier.
  • the transformation of the information according to the transformation data is performed at least partly with the server means and/or with the receiving telecommunication means.
  • the transformation of the information according to the transformation data can also be performed at least partly with a transformation means in the receiving communications channel between the server means and the receiving telecommunication means.
  • the inventive method is usually applied for accessing information via the Internet.
  • a computer and/or cable phone and/or mobile phone and/or PDA device e.g. signalling with a pager, or other Portal Device Application
  • PDA device e.g. signalling with a pager, or other Portal Device Application
  • a further object of the invention is a system performing the steps of the inventive method, providing for accessing information from a network data source, where the network data source is managed by a server means.
  • the system according to the invention comprises a data source and a server means connected to the data source, and further comprises a receiving means and a receiving communications channel and/or requesting communications channel for facilitating data traffic with the server means.
  • the server means and the receiving means is programmed to perform in cooperation with each other the steps of the method according to the invention,
  • They system preferably comprises a separate data source communications channel between the server means and the data source, together with a data storage means storing transformation data, the data storage means being connected to the server means.
  • the server means may comprise a single server or multiple interconnected servers, where the server means usually comprises a data source server and/or WAP server and/or WEB server and/or database server and/or DFT database server.
  • the inventive method can be used primarily for accessing databases via the Internet, where the method is implemented using Internet-based communications channels with their well-known protocols. All communications procedures and information carrier media known in the practice of using the Internet can therefore be exploited to perform steps of the method, e.g. use of static and dynamic VVEB pages, XML documents, WAP pages, running Java or JavaScript applications, sending e-mails, etc.
  • the data needed for retrieving the desired information can be communicated via a mobile phone, via a cable phone line, or using speech recognition and/or a fax machine.
  • the method is especially suitable for mobile applications such as sending SMS messages or using WAP pages.
  • the method can be used with communications protocols based on ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) connections and modems, and also with conventional data exchange channels of computer networks such as TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), ftp, telnet, NFS, and file send and receive.
  • TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
  • ftp Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
  • telnet telnet
  • NFS file send and receive.
  • the existing network communications routines of particular applications running on desktop, palmtop and notebook computers, as well as of existing user interfaces of particular programs, e.g. of Excel. may be used advantagously.
  • a further object of the invention is a computer program product comprising commands to execute the server-side steps and the user means-side steps of the inventive method.
  • FIG. 1 depicts the structure of transformation data applied in the method according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 shows the basic structure of the filter template file
  • FIG. 3 shows the principle of storing filter template files applied in the method
  • FIG. 4 depicts the process of creating transformation data applied in the method
  • FIG. 5 shows the application of transformation data in the course of the method described
  • FIG. 6 shows the principal structure of the system performing steps of the method according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 depicts a modified version of the system shown in FIG. 6, and
  • FIG. 8 illustrates the hardware devices implementing the method.
  • FIGS. 1 - 5 , and FIGS. 6,7 and 8 steps of the method according to the present invention are illustrated by the description of the process of accessing a common web page.
  • information is requested from a web page 12 marked by a bookmark 10 by means of a telecommunications network 43 , in this case through a direct Internet connection.
  • the web page 12 can be regarded as information retrieved from a data source 16 being managed by a server means 14 .
  • Requesting information is performed by first sending an information request through the network 43 from a requesting telecommunication means 18 to the sever means 14 .
  • Information is then retrieved by the server means 14 from the data source 16 , for example from a web page 12 .
  • Information retrieved from the data source 16 is forwarded to a receiving telecommunication means 20 .
  • the information used by the receiving telecommunication means 20 e.g. a computer, is transformed.
  • the present invention relates to the way that this transformation takes place.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 only the server means 14 and the user profile database 30 are shown as parts of the network 43 .
  • the network 43 may comprise the data source 16 itself, as well as the receiving telecommunication means 20 and the requesting telecommunication 18 , or even the configuring telecommunication means 36 (see below).
  • FIG. 1 shows the structure of the CFIC filter channel 24 (CFIC stands for Custom Filtered Information Channel) associated to the web page 12 and possibly to other web pages.
  • Filter channel CFIC- 1 comprises the bookmark 10 pointing to the given web page 12 , together with the page filter template 11 (PFT).
  • PFT 11 describes the structure of the individual web page 12 referred to by the bookmark 10 .
  • Structural analysis and description of the web page 12 can be performed in many different ways. For example, HTML tags, physical document layout, type size and colour can be evaluated, and table parameters, text delimiters and keywords appearing in the document, the connecting points (links) in the document can also be taken into consideration.
  • the PFT 11 being a part of the CFIC 24 , can be supplemented by additional parameters 22 , which in turn can be static, editable, or dynamic.
  • Static parameters can be set by the user, for instance during the creation of the CFIC 24 (see FIG. 4 as well).
  • Dynamic parameters which provide information about the time and location of the request as well as personal user data, can be determined by the system itself during individual instances of information request. Alternatively, parameters can be set by the user for each individual request.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the possibility of treating multiple CFIC- 1 . . . CFIC-n filter channels 24 together in a document filter template 26 (DFT).
  • DFT document filter template
  • FIG. 3 multiple DFT templates 26 associated with an individual user can be assembled in a user profile 28 , where these user profiles 28 are stored in a user profile database 30 .
  • transformation data are stored in the CFIC channels 24 and DFT templates 26 , and through them the transformation data are contained in user profiles 28 and in the user profile database 30 .
  • the information appearing at the user is a customized document 32 (CD), which is generated by applying the DFT template 26 (in some cases containing only a single CFIC channel 24 ) to a given web page.
  • CD customized document 32
  • the DFT 26 contains unique transformation data, this way information requested from the data source 16 is transformed using these unique transformation data.
  • These transformation data are unique (individual), because they relate to a specific, well-defined data source. Further, the transformation data allow a transformation according to criteria which was not necessarily contemplated when the data source was compiled. Accordingly, the transformation data are not only unique or individual, but they are also determined by the user receiving the information from the data source, or at least they are determined by a third person on behalf of the user.
  • the transformation or filtering parameters are determined by a third person independent from both the user or the compiler of the data source. In any case, it is this transformed information that is used at the receiving communication means 20 , that is, depending on its content, the transformed information is either stored, displayed for the user, or further processed.
  • FIG. 4 shows the steps of generating the DFT template 26 .
  • First the user or any other person defines the CFIC channels 24 by downloading the desired web page 12 as a source document and, by performing structural analysis of the page, determines which segments of the source document are relevant for further use. As a result, all the relevant and needed segments 34 are selected.
  • the document filter template 26 and the CFIC channels 24 contained in the document filter template 26 substantially store the information needed to identify said segments 34 .
  • Such information identifying document segments 34 may be, for instance, a reference to a given cell of a given table, a physical location in a web page (displayed on screen), words situated near a given keyword, etc.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the situation when unique data describing data structures of the given information source are considered as the unique transformation data, and thus only those segments 34 of the web page 12 are picked for further use that appear at previously specified locations of the web page 12 .
  • the specified locations of the segments 34 is illustrated in FIG. 4 with the physical position of the segments 34 , but it must be emphasised that it is only one of many possibilities to perform the filtering according to the physical location of the segments 34 .
  • the segments 34 may be defined in a number of ways on the whole web page 12 , which latter is considered in the method as a unitary data source.
  • the generated customized document 32 (CD), which might contain the segments 34 of the original web page 12 in a modified order and format, is the final result of the method in this specific implementation.
  • the customized document 32 (CD) is generated, on the basis of individual requirements specified by the user and stored in the configuring channel 40 (see also FIGS. 6 - 7 ).
  • the customized document 32 (CD) may be generated from one source document or, if a more advantageous method is used, from several source documents by filtering, formatting, and editing the documents and, preferably, unifying them.
  • the contents of the customised document 32 is forwarded to the receiving telecommunications means 20 through the receiving communications channel 44 .
  • the receiving communications channel 44 advantageously supports interactive communication, e.g. because it supports WEB or WAP protocols, than links may also be included in the customised document 32 via the document filter template 26 (links may be such connection points as described by the HTML (HyperText Markup Language)—és WML—(Website Meta Language) standards).
  • links may be such connection points as described by the HTML (HyperText Markup Language)—és WML—(Website Meta Language) standards).
  • personal data of the receiving person or transformation data related to the receiving person and previously determined by the receiving person or any other person is considered as the unique transformation data assigned to the person who receives the information.
  • Such data may be the address or e-mail of the receiving person, and the retrieved information may be displayed or not depending on whether the address of the receiving person is found in it or not (e.g. if there are any traffic jams near the street or city where the person lives).
  • FIGS. 6 - 7 show two different versions of the system that performs the steps of the method according to the present invention.
  • the main function of the system is to provide access to information stored in a data source 16 managed by a server means 14 .
  • the information can be accessed via a telecommunication network, so the server means 14 can also be accessed through a telecommunication network.
  • telecommunication network is used in a most general sense, so the telecommunication network can be a computer network, a cable phone or mobile phone network, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), UDMA (Ultra Direct Memory Access), or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network or any combination of these networks.
  • the system comprises a server means 14 , being connected with the requesting telecommunication means 18 and the receiving telecommunication means 20 , and optionally with the configuring telecommunication means 36 . If the system comprises a separate configuring communication means 36 , then the unique transformation data or a part thereof can be specified using this configuring telecommunication means 36 .
  • a configuring communications channel 40 can be assigned to the configuring telecommunication means 36 .
  • a telecommunications channel can be regarded as configuring telecommunications 40 channel if personal data of the user and custom configurations for document request, filtering, formatting, editing, and, optionally merging, i. e. substantially the predetermined transformation data may be specified through the channel.
  • the server means 14 may comprise a single server or multiple interconnected servers.
  • the server means 14 can contain a dedicated data source server and a separate WAP or WEB server for providing connections with requesting, receiving, or configuring means or for connecting to other databases or outside networks.
  • the system contains a separate profile database 30 , that is the system performing the method comprises a data storage means storing a database (the profile database 30 ) that is connected with the server means 14 and contains transformation data, then this data storage means can be handled by a separate DFT server (Distribution Functional Terminal) or a database server managing substantially DFT-type data.
  • DFT server Distribution Functional Terminal
  • a separate data source communications channel 46 is assigned to the data source 16 , as it is shown in FIGS. 6 - 7 .
  • the server means 14 connects with the data source 16 through the source communications channel 46 .
  • the data source 16 can otherwise be connected directly to the server means 14 .
  • the requesting communications channel 42 connects the requesting means 18 and the server means 14
  • the receiving communications channel 44 connects the server means 14 and the receiving telecommunication means 20
  • the configuring communications channel 40 is between the configuring means 36 and the server means 14 .
  • the system according to the invention comprises a data source 16 and a server means 14 connected to it, and it further comprises a receiving communications channel 44 and/or a requesting communications channel 42 for facilitating data traffic with the server means.
  • the server means 14 is programmed to perform the server-side steps of the method according to the invention. Accordingly, the server means 14 receives the request sent from the requesting means 18 and, based on the contents of the request, determines the unique transformation data. It might happen that the information request contains at least a part of or even all the transformation data. In that case the server means 14 retrieves the requested information from the data source 16 and usually performs the transformation before forwarding the information towards the receiving means 20 through the receiving channel 44 .
  • the system usually comprises the profile database 30 .
  • both the configuring communications channel 40 and the requesting communications channel 42 can be connected directly to the 30 profile database, so information requests are sent to the server means 14 through an additional communications channel 48 connecting the server means 14 and the profile database 30 .
  • the additional communications channel 48 provides for bi-directional data traffic in order to facilitate the transmission of both requests coming from the server means 14 and the traffic in the direction of the server, containing the transformation data.
  • the server means 14 retrieves transformation data partly from the database 30 besides using the data source 16 , and either performs the transformation itself, or forwards the retrieved information together with transformation data towards the receiving means 20 .
  • the profile database 30 can be omitted.
  • the requesting communications channel 42 , and/or the receiving communications channel 44 and/or the configuring communications channel 40 are chosen to be different from one another.
  • the communications channels are chosen to be different from one another. For instance, configuration is performed through an Internet connection, while information is requested via a mobile phone network and received by a fax machine connected e.g. to a cable phone line.
  • the requesting means 18 , the receiving means 20 , and the configuring means 36 are usually also different from one another.
  • the requesting communications channel 42 , the receiving communications channel 44 , and the configuring communications channel 40 are implemented as a single common communications channel 45 .
  • the requesting means 18 , the receiving means 20 , and optionally the configuration means 36 are embodied as a single telecommunication means 47 , e.g. a network computer, while the common communications channel 45 can in practice be an ISDN connection.
  • a computer a mobile phone, a cable phone, a PDA device and/or pager may be applied as the requesting means 18 and/or receiving means 20 and/or configuring means 36 , mentioning these particular devices only as non-limiting examples.
  • the data determining the transformation of information sent from the data source 16 to the receiving means 20 can be of many types. In the most typical case, data determining the filtering and/or editing and/or supplementing and/or displaying of the retrieved information are regarded as transformation data.
  • the data source 16 stores a source document, e.g. a web page 12 .
  • a source document e.g. a web page 12 .
  • Any information requested and retrieved from a given data source 16 using the source communications channel can in a general sense be regarded as such a source document (or source page).
  • the result of the information request depends on transformation data previously assigned to the individual query, or on input data provided by the user and/or on current (dynamically assigned) input data related to the user.
  • By querying multiple data sources multiple source documents are generated.
  • the source document usually includes all the information demanded by the user, it frequently has more information content than desired, and further the format of the document is often significantly different from that demanded by the user.
  • the method according to the present invention solves, among others, this problem.
  • information filtering amounts to the filtering of this source document by means of any known filtering method that allows the searching for a specific content in a larger document, according to given search criteria, and thereby removes the superfluous contents of the document.
  • filtering can be searching for a given word, or for content located near a given word, that is, in the same paragraph, text line or table row as the search word is located; or searching for content at a given location in a document such as e.g. below an image, in the header of a given table, etc.
  • the reformatting of such a source document may also be regarded as the editing the retrieved information.
  • Reformatting or editing the source document is preferable because the customized document generated from the source document are frequently transmitted on a different type of communications channel than the one used for transmitting the source document. Therefore, generally their format determining the physical appearance of the document is significantly different, and often this difference is a necessity.
  • the unique customized document is also usually more condensed than the original document, because the customized document was generated by a filtering process. Therefore, it has often a format and physical appearance inevitably different from the original source document.
  • Another example can be the conversion from WEB to WAP, where, due to the limited length of a text line, it is useful to break the line after a recurring long word. Beside the compression, advantageously a part of the links or even all links may be retained as well, because both the WEB and WAP protocols are interactive.
  • the user may be regarded as an editing of the information, i. e. the source document, when the user determines the custom filter and format settings, and the user also supplements selected parts of the source document by adding new content to it, or, alternatively, the user may also choose to display certain selected contents in a modified format. For example, it is possible to multiply a retrieved numeric value by a constant (e.g. by a currency exchange rate) and display only the multiplied value. Or, the user can display a maximum temperature value, retrieved from a table, preceded by the word “Hottest”.
  • a constant e.g. by a currency exchange rate
  • Transformation data may be data which determines how the retrieved information should be unified with other pieces of information. Typically this is the case when multiple source documents are united or merged. In this case the user's customized document is generated by merging multiple filtered, formatted, and edited source documents into a single document. Every morning, for instance, the user can receive the maximum daily temperature forecast and a selected exchange rate value together in a single SMS message.
  • the change of the retrieved information with respect to its previous state is regarded as transformation data.
  • the system has to store the previous state of the information independent of original source of the information, e.g. in the filtering channel 24 assigned to the given source document, or in a dedicated part of the profile database 30 .
  • data for the identification of the requesting person are regarded as transformation data.
  • Identification data can for instance be, among others, the name of the requesting person. In practice, however, it is mostly through the user's telecommunication identifier that such data can be obtained, for example by finding the person by means of a phone number transmitted by the GMS protocol.
  • An example of user identification is the case of a mobile phone user asking through WAP the departure times of the next trains to “home”, that is, to the town where the user lives.
  • the user receives an SMS including the station of departure and departure times.
  • the user's address either obtained dynamically from a database or previously stored as personal data, is transmitted as input data.
  • the user's current physical location can be established with an accuracy of 300 meters using cell and location information provided by WAP communication.
  • there are travel service websites providing railway timetable information e.g. at the URL http://elvira.mavinformatika.hu), where both the station of departure and the destination can be specified, together with preferred times of the day.
  • the answer for such a timetable query is usually sent as an HTML document, which frequently contains too much data to be transmitted to a WAP mobile phone. Therefore, in order to render the information receivable with the limited-capacity receiving means, the HTML document has to be filtered, reformatted and optionally supplemented by a short “Next train home:” message line, thereby composing a concise SMS message.
  • Another example can be a user ordering a taxi in a foreign city using his WAP-enabled mobile phone by visiting his own WAP page and selecting the “Taxi order” menu item.
  • the WAP server can in principle be located where the user usually lives, or at any other suitable location, but the WAP communications channel provides information about the user's current physical location as dynamic input data.
  • a local taxi company can be found and sent an SMS message containing the user's name and phone number (these data have been stored previously).
  • the WAP protocol specifies the user's current location, and then the reply message sent by the taxi company is forwarded by the system to the user's mobile phone in the form of an SMS message that contains the company's name and the approximate time when the taxi arrives.
  • this scenario illustrates an additional advantageous feature of the inventive method: namely that the method is used in a transaction for concluding a passenger transport agreement, or at least for the making of an offer to conclude such an agreement, where the concluding of said passenger transport agreement is based on a unique transformation of specific data.
  • access of information according to the inventive method is applied for a transaction for concluding an agreement, the concluding of the agreement being based on data exchange.
  • the chain of customised documents contains a data source which itself is not filtered or transformed.
  • This unfiltered document may be in any part of the chain.
  • Transformation data can as well be data identifying a person different from the user, for example when the user makes a query for the phone number of a contact using a WAP-enabled mobile phone.
  • the user's profile contains a reference to a phone directory service website.
  • To perform the query the user starts the WAP micro-browser, types in the name of the contact, and in a few seconds receives the desired phone number on the display.
  • authentication data are sent to the server means and/or to the data source during a further step of the method.
  • Authentication data are typically passwords or tokens.
  • Transformation of the information according to the transformation data is usually performed at least partly with the server means 14 and/or the receiving telecommunication means 20 , as it is depicted particularly in FIG. 7.
  • the transformation of the information according to the transformation data is performed at least partly with a transformation means 50 in the receiving communications channel 44 between the server means 14 and the receiving telecommunication means 20 .
  • the transformation means 50 can be a dedicated computer or any other suitable hardware means capable of transforming the retrieved information according to the transformation data.
  • the transformation data can be transmitted to the transformation means 50 through an additional separate communications channel 44 ′ instead of said transformation data being transmitted through the receiving communications channel 44 .
  • the separate communications channel 44 ′ establishes a direct connection between the profile database 30 and the transformation means 50 , where the communications channel 44 ′ can be of any known type, similarly to the requesting and receiving communications channels.
  • a separate communications channel 44 ′′ can be also added, where this communications channel 44 ′′ establishes a direct connection between the profile database 30 and the receiving telecommunication means 20 .
  • An object of the invention is a computer program product comprising commands to execute the server-side steps of the inventive method.
  • Such a computer program is substantially an application running on the server means 14 , and provides for performing functions of the server means 14 and of the profile database 30 as described above.
  • Another object of the invention is a computer program product comprising commands to execute the user means-side steps of the inventive method. Because the requesting means 18 , the receiving means 20 , and the configuring means 36 are in certain cases implemented as separate machines, the program performing user functions and operating said machines can consist of separate individual programs.
  • the user wishes to find out the current weather in a certain location.
  • the user visits his own unique web page with a web browser running on a computer 130 connected to the Internet 125 , where the Internet 125 represents the network 30 .
  • the connection is done in a known manner, e. g. using the modem 131 .
  • the unique web page of the user may be stored on the WEB server 120 , which may coincide with the computer 130 of the user.
  • the user selects the “weather” field that has previously been defined in the configuring channel.
  • a DFT template is assigned to the selected field, with the template containing transformation data referring to a web page with a fixed URL, which contains weather data for the given location.
  • the weather forecast for Budapest can be found at the web page identified by the URL http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/hu_budapest.html.
  • This web page may be stored on the web server 122 .
  • the device performing the transformation presently the computer 130 which also acts as the receiving means, accesses the desired web page through the Internet 125 , and searches for the “Temp” field (referring to temperature). Thereafter the transforming device retrieves the temperature value from the “Temp” field of the table, removing table format tags in the meanwhile.
  • the retrieved temperature value e.g. 59° F. is now displayed, with a previously determined expression (for example, “Temperature today:”) displayed above it.
  • the final filtered and transformed information can be displayed with the user's WAP-enabled mobile phone, as an example. Alternatively, the information can be sent to the user's conventional GSM mobile phone 100 as an SMS message, if the mobile phone 100 is not WAP compatible.
  • the transformation of the data may be done on the WAP server 110 , or on the web server 120 storing the individual web page of the user.
  • the appropriate program, i. e. the software performing the method runs on the WAP server 110 or the web server 120 .
  • FIG. 8 do not shows separately the known GSM network creating the physical connection between the WAP server 110 and the mobile phone 100 .
  • the customized document can also be sent to the web browser of the user's computer 130 as a dynamically generated web page.
  • the computer program product performing the method i. e. performing the transformation runs on the computer 130 , optionally loaded from an external data carrier 132 .
  • These pages are usually password-protected and can be accessed only through an authentication page, where the user's registration data must be specified. After successful authentication the page corresponding to the desired column can be opened.
  • the method according to the invention automates the authentication procedure by filling in forms in the name of the user with the user's registration data. That way it is possible for the user to send a request from his own communications means identified with the phone number and/or MSISDN (Mobile Station International ISDN Number) identifier and/or IMEI (International Mobile station Equipment Identity) number thereof by starting a specific request stored among his own profiles, and to receive and display the desired document.
  • MSISDN Mobile Station International ISDN Number
  • IMEI International Mobile station Equipment Identity
  • the user can specify in advance details of requests he would like to make at a future time when he will only have a limited-capacity receiving means, e.g. a mobile phone for making the prospective request, and no web browser will be available.
  • a limited-capacity receiving means e.g. a mobile phone for making the prospective request
  • the user can choose the web page he would like to filter, and he can specify the content he wants to receive together, the communications channel for receiving the filtered content, and optionally he may decide to combine specific contents from multiple web pages into a single customized document.
  • the user may advantageously use previously selected documents such as weather forecasts, news or combinations thereof.

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